The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1887-06-20
INTERNATIONAL DISTURBANCE.
Police Watch on a British Dinner aud
What Followed.

A report was about town yesterday
morning that a policeman had been
badly used up by party of young men
who had been celebrating Queen Vic
toria's jubilee by dinner at the Hotel
on Saturday night. Enquiry at the
Police Station only elected very brief
statement Officer Kauhane said that
he had been sent to warn the dinner
party to make less noise. After they
left the Hotel, he said, they created a
disturbance at the corner of Hotel and
Richards streets, and when two mount
ed policemen interfered with them,
they pulled them off their horses
and beat them, but nobody was badly
hurt. Several Of the party had been
arrested, three by warrant on Sunday
morning.
One Of the gentlemen, who was
arrested Saturday night and says he
will swear to his statement, tells the
story Of far more serious affair than
the above. While the dinner was in
progress two policemen were stationed
on the Hotel verandah as watch on
the party. There was singing Of songs,
but the hilarity was only what was ordi.
nary on such occasions. The police.
men interposed warnings once or twice,
but their surveillance was resented as
uncalled for. Among the guests was
the Attorney General, who, according
to the assertion Of one Of the party,
went to the telephone and summoned
detail Of officers from the Station.
When the dinnerpartya djournedfrom
the Hotel, most Of them we're invited
by one of their number to his resi-
dence in the vicinity. They went with
him and stayed little while, enjoying
themselves singing with little indi.
vidual dancing. On leaving the house
about midnight without making any
undue noise, the first man to reach the
street was roughly seized by an officer
and told he was under arrest He re-
sisted the arrest as an outrage, and in
the passage OF high words a mounted
policeman declared his ability to thrash
any one Of the party. An officer blew
his whistle and Immediately policemen
rushed out of ambush on both street:
to the number Of about twenty, and
proceeded to the attempt Of arresiine
the whole party.
Our informant was seized by three Of
four officers, who pinioned his arms be
hind his back and cursed him when he
offered to call hack and go quietly tc
the Station. They were dragging hin
of, when he saw a policeman he knew
{ who consented to 60 with him in car
riage. He asked that their late host
who was in the hands ofanother squad
be allowed to ride with him, but the
reply was, 'Let him 60 to hell" A
the Station the officers had no charge
to make against this gentleman, ever
after he insisted on having the cause o
his arrest entered.
In the meantime the private premise
! referred to had been invaded, but on,
of the trespassing officers got severel
FURNISHED for his imprudence. Yes
2 terday morning several Of the part
J were arrested under warrant, and ha,
q to give bail Of $s5o each, the Marsha
!, telling them that he would make
. ST., 900 il they said anything. He wa
u told to make it that amount, then, an
s. it would be deposited.
n Comment would be out Of place ju:
y now, but there is strong impressio
e abroad that the authorities blundere
le badly, first, in offering the insult to tn
n dinner party OF placing it under polio
t. surveillance, and secondly in invadin
y the private grounds Of a gentleman VIII
N happens to be the acting Vice Cons'
e. Of European Power.